Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America.
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Blogosphere: Ultimate Absurdity in American Transport
DC Streetsblog
We really have to give Jeff Speck credit. In his new book, Walkable City, he amasses a wealth of evidence that skillfully reveals just how absurd American attitudes toward transportation and cities have become...

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URBANISM | HOUSING | CITIES | ENVIRONMENT
Blogosphere: In DC Burbs, Legislation to Protect Trees
Next American City
Trees are an…

Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America.
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Blogosphere: Walk Appeal, New Standard for Sheds
Original Green
Walk Appeal promises to be a major new tool for understanding and building walkable places, and it explains several things that were heretofore either contradictory or mysterious...

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Blogosphere: Should We Pay People to Bike to Work
Boston Magazine
This morning, it took me 40 minutes to drive 3.5 miles from my house in Jamaica Plain to my office by Symphony Hall. That's about 5 miles per hour..

Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America.
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Blogosphere: Congress Again Fails on Infrastructure
Washington Post Wonkbook
On Friday, President Obama signed the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012. Odds are you didn't hear about it. There wasn't a signing ceremony in the Rose Garden, and no one on the Hill rushed to the cameras to take the credit...

Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America.
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Blogosphere: Transit Fails Ohio's Urban Poor
Next American City
Once every four years, politicians descend on a hard luck steel town in northeast Ohio called Youngstown. With a 50 percent poverty rate - the worst in the country - Youngstown makes a compelling campaign speech backdrop, illustrating everything that is wrong with government, or maybe America...

Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America.
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Blogosphere: Problem with the Northern Branch Project
Cap'n Transit
For a months now I've been telling people that the "transit" proposed for the bridge is just sprawl transit, and it's true. There wouldn't even be a stop in Nyack; if commuter rail is chosen the nearest station would be near the Palisades Mall in West Nyack..

Youngstown, Ohio has its share of problems. Once a single-industry steel town, the rust belt poster child has seen its population dwindle from 115,000 residents to barely 67,000 over just three decades. For the better part of the last century, the city was known for its mafia activity, and shaking off the residue of government corruption and violence has been difficult... Read On

People in Cleveland, Detroit, Flint and Youngstown, and in Bilbao, Leipzig and Turin, have plenty of ideas about what cities can do with vacant and abandoned land: urban agriculture; watershed restoration and stream daylighting; side-lot programs; extensive park networks; public arts zones; new museums... Read On

On Friday, a British newspaper, The Telegraph, ran an article titled
"U.S. Cities May Have to Be Bulldozed to Survive." This idea is
hardly new. Youngstown, Ohio, and its mayor, Jay Williams, have long
aimed at transforming that declining Rust Belt polis into "a
sustainable mid-sized city." Detroit's last mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick,
was elected in 2002 on a promise to raze 5,000 houses. The Telegraph
article's novelty was the suggestion that the Obama administration is
interested in supporting bulldozing, which prompted the Drudge Report
headline: "Obama Era: Bulldoze Shrinking Cities?" ...